[mythtv-users] Resolution Questions

Richard Bronosky mythtv at bronosky.com
Wed Feb 1 16:32:51 UTC 2006


My XFree86 desktop goes off the screen, but I did manage to tell myth to
resize the GUI and adjust the offset so that it is perfectly sized and
perfectly placed.  I can't remember if the option was in the myth-setup
program or the setting are with mythfrontend.  (I do know that the
terminology you are looking for is GUI size.  It defaults to 0,0 which
is full size.) Getting MythTV to display nicely on my TV was easy.  But,
getting vt's 1-6 or even XFree86 to get rid of over scan seems
impossible.  No matter what I change in xvidtune, my TV places the image
in the same place.  It's really frustrating.

JDeGraw wrote:
> Iam new to the group and just have a quick question.
>
> I have a mythtv dedicated box running fedora core 4 with kde. I set it
> up and everything seems to be working fine. One minor problem though.
>
> My output to the tv is through a nvidia 4mx video card via s-video but
> my screen runs off the tv edges by about an inch or so of the desktop.
> My tv is a rear projection panasonic 49 inch model. My mythtv menus do
> the same thing as well as live tv. It would be nice to be able to see
> the whole desktop kinda shrunk down to fit the tv screen. Im running the
> video card in 1024x768 mode. It seems thats the upper limit for this
> card. Now, Im thinking that getting a video card with a possible higher
> resolution would fix this? Im already running mythtv in a window on
> fedora but cannot resize the window for some reason. I bet even if I
> could it will still cut off the edges.
>
> To give an idea of how much is cut off from the picture, If I go into
> the setup menus for the frontend (as an example) I dont see the
> <next>,<back> ect.. buttons. I have to kinda guess with the remote.
> Makes it pretty hard to configure things. 
>
> I sure would appreciate any comments on this. This is a brand new setup
> for me. First time getting it to work on my tv.
>
> Also noticed that my network card goes into sleep mode so my network
> connection to it goes down after so many minutes. So, I cannot give you
> my xorg.conf settings but there are only 2 lines added. They are -->
>
> Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
> Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
>
> In the device area of xorg.conf.
>
> Thanks in advance for anyones experience with this.
>
> coffee412
>
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